Happy Sunday and welcome to our Birthday blog hop at AAA Cards.
We are turning two and we're celebrating with lots of giveaways. Look at all these sponsors who have offered up prizes.
I am first on the hop but, you will want to make sure to visit each DT member's Blog, there are prizes to be won by visiting each of us. First off we will all have a hidden word on our blogs and each of us will ask a question and will pick a winner from the answers. Be sure to visit AAA Cards to get the deets on how to win.
Here's my Birthday card
Here's my Birthday card
To make my card used two panels of watercolor paper. the first one I used the new Gansai Tambi Starry palette, and cut out the balloons using the Papertrey Ink Best Birthday die. On the second panel I made a wash background using Mission Gold watercolors, attached the balloons and added the greeting. I finished the card by adding sequins from Pretty Pink Posh to the panel and attaching it to a white card base.
Now for my question
Birthdays=gifts
What is the best birthday gift (stamping related) that you have ever received. For me there is only one answer and it's definitely my MISTI. I don't know how I ever stamped without it, I use it on almost every card I make. Can't wait to hear your stories.
One of my lucky commenters who answers my question will win this cute set from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps
be sure to stop back by after the challenge closes to see if you won.
Your next stop is Coralynn, but I have a complete list below in case you get lost along the way
Happy Hopping!
Beautiful card! My best crafty gift was definitely my Cuttlebug :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card. I love my cuttlebug. Even though I upgraded to the big shot I still use my cuttlebug all the time.
ReplyDeleteA very pretty watercolour card, Ceal! The best birthday gift I have ever received was this year, a road trip along the East Coast of Scotland.
ReplyDeleteA stunning watery BG Ceal and love the die-cut balloons over the top. Perfect birthday feel to your card. AND I've got to go with you on the Misti being my favourite crafty birthday pressie. Tough question but I use it the mostest!!! Sarah x
ReplyDeleteSuch a cute card with the gold balloons and blue wash background! My favourite gift must be my big shot plus as it has saved me loads of stencilling and fussy cutting time! For stamping, it'll hopefully be my misti when it arrives in July!
ReplyDeletelove those balloons! and the gold against the blue, it's fab
ReplyDeleteto answer the question I do lone my bigshot I got it as a gift second hand, but it works still fabulously. I've got the MISTI on order, I treated myself, can;t wait till it gets in, esp because I stamp on watercolor paper a lot and mess up a lot! but no more,....i hope
ReplyDeleteI love your card Ceal, its very pretty.
ReplyDeleteMy fav. birthday gift was from my son & DIL and it was a gift bag full of stamps, paper, washi, bling, tape runner, etc. My beautiful daughter in law knows me SO well. (Best present, EVER!)
This is lovely, Ceal. Beautiful bg, great die cut and super combination of colors. I have to use my MISTI! I've had it for a year, but just recently got the proper magnets (I think) but have not tried it since. I like gift certificates to PTI and SSS and other companies as gifts. Then I get to choose and it is like and extended birthday! :)
ReplyDeleteThose balloons look so great on that watercolourbackground!
ReplyDeleteThe birthday-pressie for my stamping that I still think is the greatest gift are some Distress inks....I don't have a Misti and am so used to using my stamppostioner.
I LOVE this card Ceal. I love the watercolor background and the blue hues. I also love the gold balloons, and of course, now I need that die. This blog hope is already costing me a bundle. LOL. My favorite stamp-related BD gift was a box of Kuretake watercolors. I am still working on my watercoloring skills with them, but I love them.
ReplyDeleteLove those outline balloons - jumped straight to the top of my wishlist! The misti has revolutionised my stamping and has to be the best ever gift I've been bought - even if I did cheat and have total input into its purchase.
ReplyDeleteAny gift cards to my favorite on-line or stamping stores. I received a Stamp of Approval from my BFF just recently that was pretty awesome.
ReplyDeleteI have always been a crafting, but my first card making gift was gift certificate to SSS. I loaded up on basics. Frame dies, sentiment stamps, and inks. Love your card and I hope I can win
ReplyDeleteOh I would love to get a Misti for my birthday! (Fingers crossed that I will!) As for the best birthday craft present I have every received, it would have to be Silhouette Portrait. I have the best hubby!
ReplyDeletePretty card! Love the balloons against that pretty background!
ReplyDeleteBest birthday present I ever received... I got to spend my birthday at Disneyland! It was quite a few years ago, and at my favorite spot to visit! I was in the area for a stamp convention that weekend also, so a fun time the entire weekend!
Beautiful card!! I have long wanted those balloons from PTI : ) You are making me need to shop! heeheehee
ReplyDeleteMy best gift was many years ago when I received my first Big Shot. I have never used one before but my amazing husband was searching for a gift for my birthday and HE fell in love with it! LOL When he gave it to me I scratched my head and said I have no idea what to do with this! LOL We jumped int he car and he took me to a LSS and they demonstrated it. I have many tools I use in my cardmaking but I rarely make a card where my Big shot is not involved : )
Thank you for a fun challenge !!
The stamping related birthday gift I love the most was one several years ago -- a Fiskars paper trimmer. I have just about worn the thing out, but so far it still works. I was hoping for a Mini Misti this year but no one took the hints I thought I had made pretty accessible! LOL
ReplyDeleteThat's an easy question. It would definitely be my Studio Tower by the Original Scrapbox Co. It was a belated birthday gift from my husband and I simply adore it...and my husband too!!
ReplyDeleteOhhhhh this is a hard question... I don't think I can think of a favorite gift but I've always loved when my kids make me cards!
ReplyDeleteLovely card! My favorite crafting gift was from a fellow crafter who knew I was just getting started and didn't have very many dies, so she cut a lot of die cuts out with dies she had (and knew I didn't have) and mailed them to me. It was the most thoughtful gift ever!
ReplyDeleteLove the card, Ceal!! The blue looks awesome against the balloons!
ReplyDeleteFor the question, I've never got on! :) We don't have a tradition of giving gifts, we only give cards. So, its been me giving my handmade cards to them instead. But I do get cards from them, though not handmade, and they are plenty! :)
The background looks beautiful. I loved the simplicity of the card! For me the best gift is getting the first stamp set when I started making cards last year
ReplyDeleteI'm getting a mini misti next week so hopefully it'll be that. Love the blues in your card
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty card!Love the background!My gift has yet to come :/ as my birthday is around the corner and i'm new in this field (:
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty card!! My fave gift would be MISTI too! ;)
ReplyDeleteSuchi xx
Lovely card! My husband got me a Big Shot for my birthday last year, few months after I took up cardmaking. My present for myself that year was some preloved stamps and Versafine, which I can't craft without! Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteFab card Ceal, I just love that background... I've got so many 'can't do withouts', but I think I'd be totally lost without my die cutters... Cuttlebug and Big Shot Plus!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday AAA
Chrissie xx
Beautiful, washed background on the card, Ceal. My fav birthday gift was my cuttlebug - it got me started on card making. LOL
ReplyDeleteI love my big shot...how could I live without it with all the awesome dies available these days!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card! My best gift was also the Misti which I got last June. Happy Birthday to all of you at AAA Cards!
ReplyDeleteJust bought a few Destress inkts have to learn work with them.
ReplyDeleteEspecially backgrounds, it's so amazing how you did this.. You really inspired me.. I love coloring with promarkers and pencils and love to use my Double DO XL time to time.
Cute card! My best stamping-related birthday gift was also getting my Misti last year, even if I did buy it for myself. LOL
ReplyDeleteGreat card. I have never received a stamping birthday gift. I have received some for Christmas and it was a wooden stamp shelf organizer
ReplyDeleteGrea CAS card. My favorite crafty birthday gift is a handmade card my husban made. It was like what you made in elementary school. He printed out a couple of pictures of us and then cut out our faces in shapes of balloons. He asked me if he can have access to my crafting supplies and went at it. This was probably 10 years ago, and I kept the card to this day. Brings a smile o my face because he made a real effort.
ReplyDeleteSuch a pretty card. My favourite gift is the Martha Stewart scoring board that my husband gifted me :)
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What a fun card. Love that watery background. My favorite crafty gift is the PTI gift certificate I received from some of my crafting BFF's this year.
ReplyDeleteLove the gold and blue combo. My husband told me to order the MISTI for my birthday last year and it arrived here in Greece one day before my birthday. I think my husband was even happier than I was when it arrived. Cannot stamp without it.
ReplyDeleteI love your water color card! My favorite birthday gift I ever received was a gold 50 cent coin that my father gave me for my 50th birthday.
ReplyDeleteYour blue background is ever so pretty; a lovely canvas for those marvelous balloons! I'm smitten! Best crafting gift (of many!): my Honeybee scissors, which my husband 'sleuthed' out for me. Guess he was tired of hearing me whining about using 'kindergarten' scissors *grin*
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Gorgeous card and beautiful background colours.
ReplyDeleteAs for my favourite crafty birthday gift... well that would have to be my first Grand Calibur that my Dad bought me many years ago xx
I love this fabulous golden die cut balloons against that fantastic blue water color wash, just gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteOne of the best crafting gifts I've ever received was, believe it or not, a Stampin Up! handmade card a friend mail to me a good 12 years ago with a note about how she did it, what stamps and products she used and also, the request for me to go check the Stampin Up! web store, I was blown away by this beautiful stamps and products and, by the end of that visit, I was already registered and had a SU demonstrator, it's been a wonderful experience!!
Thank you for the chance to win.
Hugs,
Maria Rodriguez.
A stunning card! my best ever birthday gift was when I was a newbie crafter, my heat gun. I'd been trying to emboss over the toaster until then! It saved a lot of scorched paper and burnt fingers, and about 25 years on that same heat gun is still in daily use
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My best crafty birthday gift was my Sizzix BIGkick! I use it ever single day, and now that I have another birthday coming up, I'd love to get a larger one!
ReplyDeleteThis is a delightful card. My best stamping gift was the bird crazy set by Tim Holtz
ReplyDeleteFAB card, I think my best stamping related gift was my Heidi Swapp Minc Machine, all that glitters is GOLD! ;) Hugs Bev x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, I love the artsy feel of the bg and the gorgeous die! I once received Altenew Hennah flowers from a friend for b-day and I think it's my most used stamp set... So it's my favorite gift!
ReplyDeleteI love the balloon outlines that let the watercolor panel show through. I don't usually get crafting gifts but my daughter did give me a gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp for my birthday a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteLove the watercolor background! The best birthday gift I ever got was when my family in NY surprised me for my 40th! My 3 cousins came with their children and my Aunt and Uncle...it was amazing:)!
ReplyDeleteLove birthday card, I am joining your second birthday party at AAA. My best birthday gift was my first Copic workshop, together with other crafty friends we have made a lovely copic coloured card , afterwards cake and family hugs! Blankina
ReplyDeleteWonderful card! the gift I got was the Big Shot! Everything is so much easier since I got my Big Shot ! Have a great day!
ReplyDeletegreat card!! My best birthday gift was a stamping class in Connecticut by Fred Mullett and it came with some of his stamps!
ReplyDeleteLove the colors on your card! My best gift was my cuttlebug and I still use it every time.
ReplyDeleteMy best craft related gift was a gift certificate to some of my favorite online shoppes! Thanks so much for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteMy best wishes , anything related to craft and card making . Of course, misti will be a great gift. I remember 2 weeks ago I was out with my 5 years old DD and I was telling her I want to pick a gift and she was telling me back she will give my a gift too. I asked her what will she gives me , she answered a stamp becouse you love them too much. I laughed and I wished if my husband understand me like her.
ReplyDeleteI love the background in blue on your card
ReplyDeleteso lovely sentiment too
great bday card
and my lovely gift was two...my hubby bought me Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor set and my Brother in Law bought for me stamp from Elen Hudson it was my fav stamp ever the one with many circle inside..
thanks for the chance to win dear Ceal
hugs
Monika
Wonderful card and the best stamping gift I ever got was when my husband bought me all 48 of Stampin' Up!s ink pads!!! Amazing and so fun!!!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty card thanks for sharing. Misti will be a great gift.I never had any one gifted me with crafts supplies
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, just love that background!! My Mum and husband bought me a Cuttlebug nearly three years ago and I haven't stopped using it since. Its the best thing ever!!!
ReplyDeleteSuch a cheerful card, thanks for sharing! Every year I told my mom to get me wooden stamps, which is the only option in Taiwan, for my birthday except one year when I got a bicycle. I came to the U.S. for college and for me it's also entering a stamping paradise! There are so much more stamps (clear ones, too!) and special tools and embellishments and dies. I agree that the misti is truly THE incredible tool, but I'd say the best crafting gift I've received is the Cuttlebug I got from my boyfriend. It's so expensive in Taiwan that I couldn't buy it without any guilt. So glad to have it now and uses it on a weekly basis!
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